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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

每一本书都是一句名言;每一所房子都是森林、矿山和采石场的报价单;每个人都是他祖先的语录。

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I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

我不认为人们可以准确地衡量一首诗的历史效力;但人们当然知道，书籍影响着个人;个人，虽然他们是大的经济和社会进程的一部分，影响着历史。每个群体毕竟是由数百万个体组成的。

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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

浪费比损失更糟糕。每一个自称有能力的人都会把浪费的问题不断地摆在面前，这一时刻即将来临。节俭的范围是无限的。

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the  walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

我仍然觉得每一天都太短了，我无法去想所有的事情，我无法去散步，我无法读所有的书，我无法去见所有的朋友。

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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

我有过这样的经历，我非常讨厌自己的身体，我甚至不愿意在家里穿短裤和胸罩，因为如果我经过一面镜子，那就是我一天的结束。

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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

你不要行事正直，因为你往树林去，必看见直树被砍倒，弯曲的树还存留。

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Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand.

黑暗的房子，我又一次站在这条长长的不可爱的街道上，门，我的心曾在这里跳动得如此之快，等待着一只手。

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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

所以我们靠这把剑生活，我们要不时地从它的反弹中解脱出来。

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Your head is a living forest full of song birds.

你的头是充满鸣禽的活林。

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